WATCH: The Extreme Thing Gluten Actually Does To Your Food

You may avoid it after watching this video.

Gluten is found in countless things that we consume every day, bread being one of the most common. Many people argue that by getting rid of it the body is better off, but do you actually know what gluten is doing to your food?

Host Dan Souza mentions that gluten is able to trap air and rise like a balloon, which is why it is incorporated into bread, because the dough needs to rise. Souza took the two doughs, mixed them and prepared them for the investigation. He carefully washed all of the starch away from them, leaving him with two balls of pure gluten. But what happened afterward is what is most shocking.

The bread flour dough proved to be incredibly elastic and very stretchy, and when Souza filled it up with air, it blew up just like a balloon. The cake flour dough wasn't filled with enough gluten to do the same, but it isn't made to rise as high as bread does. Though this doesn't prove that gluten is bad to consume, it might make you think twice when baking with flour.

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